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R. S. WEST.

DISINFEGTING APPARATUS.

No. 393,047. Patented Nov. 20, 1888.

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ROBERT S. WEST, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

DISIN FECTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,047, dated November 20, 1888.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, ROBERT S. WEs'r, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland, Ouyahoga county, and State of Ohio, have invented a certain Improved Automatic Disinfector and Insect-Exterminator, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of the invention consists of a chamber, preferably cylindrical, having a suitble base and cover. The chamber forms a receptacle for the disinfecting -fiuid, which is conveyed to the exterior by capilliary action through the medium of somesuitable textile fabric or its equivalent. Connected with the apparatus is a valve or cut-off for controlling the passage of the fluid from the chamber to the exterior.

That the scope of my invention may be seen and understood, reference will he had to the following specification, and to the annexed drawings, making part thereof.

Figure 1 represents an elevation of the said invention; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section; Fig. 3,a horizontal section in the line a: x, and Fig. 4. is a horizontal section in the line as m, Fig. 2.

Like letters designatelike parts in the drawings and specification.

The apparatus or article may be of various dimensions according to the conditions of the place where it is to be used. For ordinary purposes one about ten or twelve inches high and the chamber about one and one-half inch in diameter will suffice.

The base A, Figs. 1 and 2, is formed above into a cup, A, for the purpose of receiving the dropping of the disinfecting-fluid as it is conveyed by capilliary action fro the interior of the fluid-chamber B through t e medium of the wick or textile conveyer O,which extends from the bottom of the chamber up over the bar D, thence downthrough the tube E, which tube may be of any suitable shape,and the conveyer 0 formed and adapted to it, as indicated in the drawings. The tube is arranged in line with the chamber B, and its opening or passage is formed between the wall of the chamber and its exterior casing. The top end, F, is closed, but has a side opening, G, into the chamher, as seen in Fig. 2, through which the conveyer 0 passes from the chamber into the tube E, as shown in the drawings. The form of the tube preferred is shown in cross-section, Fi 3.

I n Fig. 2 the conveyer G is seen in position for practical use supported upon thebar D, with the cut-off H above. To this cut-off is connected a stem, I, on which is formed a screw threaded into the boss J, attached to the top of the chamber B. The upper end of the stem I is provided with a finger-piece and the lower end is loosely connected to the cut-off H in such way as to admit of the stem beingturned in either direction to raise or lower the cut-off without detaching the stern therefrom, which is done by forming a head on the end of the stem and a collar above, whereby the cut-off is arranged between the head and the collar. By this means the threaded stem will raise and lower the cutoff from and on the conveyer as it rests upon the bar D below the cut-off. By the adjustment of the cut-off in its relation with the conveyer O and bar D more or less of the fluid from the chamber is controlled in its passage by capilliary action from the chamber B to the exterior. On the cut-off H being pressed down upon the conveyer the passage of the fluid is controlled according to the pressure of the cut-off upon the conveyer 0. Thus the amount of disinfectingfiuid conveyed from the chamber B to the exterior by means of the conveyer 0 may be gaged by the pressure of the cut-off in the manoff. (Shown in Fig. 4.)

The top of the chamber B is provided with a movable cap or cover, K, for supplying the chamber with disinfecting-fluid through the cap-opening. The fluid may be either benzine, a solution of creosote, or other suitable antiseptic agent, which will act also as an insecticide or exterminator of moths, cockroaches, and other analogous pests which infest dwell ings.

,erly the disinfector may be then placed in clothes-closets, sink-rooms, water'closets, hospital-wards, private dwellings,and other places infected with noxious gases or odors, and places infested with offensive and destructive insects. The effluent fluid from the chamber ner described in raising and lowering the cut- After the fluid-chamber B is charged propinto the cup A eliminates an efiiuvia which will,

neutralize the noxious and foul airs and gases present. By placing the disinfector in locations infested with pestiferous life the same will become exterminated by the influence of the fluid from the chamber,which is gradually conveyed therefrom until it is all exhausted,which can be again supplied. The quantity of fluid passing from the chamber B to the exterior by means of the conveyer O can be more or less, as the nature of conditions may require, by the means before set forth.

What I claim is- 1. A disinfector consisting of a chamber for antiseptic fluid, with a cup, A, at the lower exterior end thereof, in combination with the tube E and conveyor 0, having one end in the fluid-chamber and extending up through an opening therein and down the interior of said tube,with its terminal withinsaid cup, arranged substantially as set forth.

2. The fluid-chamber B, having a cup atits lower end,a conveyer, O, a tube on the exterior of said chamber for the protection and direction of the external terminal of the con veyer to the cup, in combination with the cutoff H and its threaded operative stem arranged conjointly, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A disinfector consisting of a chamber, B, for antiseptic fluid, provided with a cap or cover, in combination with the exterior tube, E, and a conveyer, 0, having one end depending in the fluid of said chamber and the other end extending down through the tube E to the exterior, whereby the fluid is conveyed from the interior to the outside terminal of and by the conveyer, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT S. WEST.

Witnesses:

W. H. BURRIDGE, B. F. 'EIBLER. 

